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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011)

Drama, mystery film

After being replaced as the chief of police in Paradise, Massachusetts by the town council president's son-in-law, William Butler, Jesse Stone is still without a full-time job (though he vows to one day be reinstated). Nevertheless, he continues to find ways to pursue investigations into two separate murders: one involves a friend with whom he had lost contact, and the other has him working as a consulting investigator for the Massachusetts State Police Homicide Division on a case involving a robbery and murder suspect. Both Jesse and his friend, State Police Captain Healy, have doubts as to the robbery & murder suspect's guilt.

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Shadowboxer (2006)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

Mikey and his stepmother Rose are contract killers and lovers. The two continue with their line of work even though Rose is suffering from cancer. Organized crime kingpin Clayton suspects that his pregnant wife Vicki may have been unfaithful, so he hires Mikey and Rose to kill her.

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Rohtenburg (2006)

Drama, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, thriller film

Keri Russell plays Katie Armstrong, an American student in Germany studying criminal psychology. She chooses a notorious subject for her thesis: the cannibal killer Oliver Hartwin (played by Thomas Kretschmann). Oliver dreamed of eating a willing victim and, thanks to the internet, he was able to find a volunteer, a young man named Simon Grombeck (played by ).

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Septembers of Shiraz (2015)

Drama, thriller film

During the first months after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, wealthy Jewish Iranian gemologist Isaac Amin is suddenly arrested at his office in Tehran by the Revolutionary Guards who take him to prison. During his prison days, Isaac meets fellow prisoners of different backgrounds, who are tortured and finally prosecuted. In interrogation sessions, his interrogator Mohsen, once torturing him with a lit cigarette and having him lashed, refers to the injustice of being affluent and to the justice that the revolution is bringing to the oppressed.

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Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)

Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, Science fiction, sexploitation film

Neil Agar, a special agent with the State Department's Office of Security (the predecessor of the Diplomatic Security Service), is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of John Grubowsky, a bacteriologist working at the government-sponsored Brandt Research. Quickly making the acquaintance of the laboratory's head librarian, Julie Zorn, he begins interviewing the firm's leading scientists, many of whom have reputations as sexual players. His investigation is soon complicated by a growing number of deaths, all men who died of congestive heart failure caused by sexual exhaustion.

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Payback (1995)

neo-noir

Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money. Oscar is eventually released from prison but when he goes to get his revenge, he gets sidetracked by the now blind guard and his beautiful wife, Rose.

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Merrill's Marauders (1962)

Drama, thriller film, war film

The film begins with off-screen narration over black-and-white historical footage of the World War II Burma campaign, including mention of all nationalities of Allied forces who participated. The film then segues into color as Lt. Stockton's platoon moves through the jungle toward their first objective, the Japanese-held town of Walawbum.

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Hidden Agenda (1990)

Drama, Political Drama, Political Thriller

The film begins with a quote from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher insisting that Northern Ireland is part of Britain. It ends with one from a former British intelligence agent, stating, "There are two laws running this country: one for the security forces and the other for the rest of us." In Northern Ireland, an Orange march is held on The Twelfth, and an audio tape is handed to Paul Sullivan (Dourif), an American human rights lawyer and activist. When Sullivan arranges to meet the person who made the tape, he is assassinated by a death squad.

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Devil in the Flesh (1998)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, Horror

A beautiful, troubled teenage girl, Debbie Strand, is being brought up by her previously estranged grandmother in Los Angeles after her mother and her mother's boyfriend die in a suspicious house fire. Her grandmother is an extremely strict, fundamentalist Christian who believes that her granddaughter is exactly like her mother. She forces Debbie to wear her mother's old clothes instead of buying her new ones, and Debbie abuses her grandmother by beating her with her walking cane.

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Mad Love (1935)

Horror, Science fiction

Actress Yvonne Orlac rests after her final performance at the "Théâtre des Horreurs" (styled after the Grand Guignol) in Paris, France. As she listens to her husband Stephen Orlac play the piano on the radio, she is greeted by Dr. Gogol, who has seen every show featuring Yvonne, and unaware of her marriage, is aghast to learn that she is moving to England with her husband.

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Avenging Force (1986)

Action, Drama, Martial arts, thriller film

Former US Secret Service agent Captain Matt Hunter has retired to his family's ranch in Louisiana and Texas, with his sister Sarah and grandfather. They drive to New Orleans and meet Matt's old military comrade and local politician Larry Richards. Larry, Matt and their families ride in Larry's float in the Mardi Gras parade.

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The Order (2001)

Action, thriller film

The film opens in 1099 at the end of the First Crusade, depicting Christian Crusaders sacking Jerusalem and slaughtering the local population. A Flemish Christian knight named Charles Le Vaillant (Jean-Claude Van Damme) becomes demoralized by the horrors of war and decides to create a new religious order. This new order brings together members from the three main religions of the region: Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

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Hot Boyz (2000)

Action, Crime, Drama, hood film

Kool (Silkk The Shocker) is a good kid from the inner city with ambitions of becoming a successful rap star. He is a black belt in Kenpo karate and is in love with poised and college-bound LaShawna (Shireen Crutchfield). Delores (Pamella D'Pella), Lashawna's mother doesn't approve of their relationship, seeing Kool as trouble for her daughter as Kool fails to convince her to let Lashawna go to Vegas with him, since she'll be departing for college soon.

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Invisible Agent (1942)

Comedy, Horror, propaganda film, Science fiction, Secret Agent, spy film, war film

Frank Griffin Jr, the grandson of the original Invisible Man, runs a print shop in Manhattan under the assumed name of Frank Raymond (Jon Hall). One evening, he is confronted in his shop by four armed men who reveal that they are foreign agents working for the Axis powers and they know his true identity. One of the men, Conrad Stauffer (Cedric Hardwicke), is a lieutenant general of the S.S., while a second, Baron Ikito (Peter Lorre), is Japanese.

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Kraftidioten (2014)

Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Crime, Dark Comedy, Drama, thriller film, vigilante film

Nils Dickman is a snow plow driver in the fictional town of Tyos, Norway, just elected citizen of the year. His life, however, is shattered by the death of his son Ingvar, found dead by overdose of heroin. The police do not investigate but Dickman is sure that his son wasn't a drug user.

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Crawlspace (1986)

Horror, thriller film

Having recently moved, 27-year-old Lori Bancroft inquires at a small urban apartment building about an advertised vacancy. The landlord and building superintendent Karl Gunther, an older German man, hospitably gives her a tour of the apartment, telling her that its last tenant was a young woman who disappeared without paying rent. During the tour, Gunther secretly performs a masochistic rite, holding his hand over an open stove-top flame.

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Morituri (1965)

war film

Robert Crain is a wealthy German engineer and pacifist who fled to India under a fabricated Swiss identity after being conscripted into the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. He is blackmailed by Colonel Statter of British Army Intelligence into participating in a plan to seize a shipment of rubber, which is in short supply and essential for both sides' war efforts, that will soon be carried by the German merchant ship Ingo from Japan to Nazi-occupied Bordeaux. All German merchant ships are under orders to scuttle themselves to prevent the capture of their cargoes by Allied forces, so Crain's task is to use his engineering knowledge…

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Monos (2019)

Drama, thriller film

On a remote mountaintop, the Monos, a group of teenage commandos identified only by their noms de guerre, perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner of war referred to only as "Doctora". They are visited by the Messenger, a superior in the unnamed Organization they serve, who oversees their drills and instructs them to push themselves harder. Two of the Monos, Lady and Wolf, request permission to enter a romantic relationship, which the Messenger grants.

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Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)

Action, Dystopian, Horror, Science fiction

The film takes place in an isolated desert compound called Clonus, where clones are bred as replacement parts for the elite, including a soon-to-be president-elect Jeffrey Knight. The clones are kept isolated from the real world by workers at the colony, but work toward being "accepted" to move to "America" after completing some type of physical training. After a clone is chosen to go to "America," they are given a party and a farewell celebration with their fellow clones.

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Mystery Street (1950)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Brassy blonde B-girl Vivian Heldon phones James Joshua Harkley, the married man she has been dating and tells him she's "in trouble". When he fails to show up at the Boston bar where she works, she picks up drunken Henry Shanway so she can drive his car to Cape Cod and confront Harkley. When Shanway realizes he's been driven 60 miles out of Boston, he demands that they go back, but Vivian ditches him and takes his car.

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